"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:10:32AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contre...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:53 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Looks like push can't resolve tags to commits. >> >> Why is that? >> >> >> >> linux$ git push -f $PWD v3.10-rc2:refs/heads/vhost-next >> > >> > Perhaps v3.10-rc2^{}. Yeah, totally and completely not-user-friendly, >> >> More commonly "v3.10-rc2^0:vhost-next", if you are truly pushing it >> out to a remote repository, but then it invites a puzzlement "What >> do you plan to do next after pushing? The only reason v3.10-rc2 is >> used is because there is not yet a local branch that will host the >> vhost-next changes that is built on top of that tag (otherwise you >> would be pushing that branch to vhost-next)". >> >> But in this particular case, you are force-pushing into the current >> repository, and it is spelled much more commonly >> >> git branch -f vhost-next v3.10-rc2 >> >> I would think. > > That was just a bad example though, I really use it for > push to remove.
Then it invites a puzzlement as you can see above. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html